About the SUN Civil Society Network

Alexandra focuses on:

• Managing the Secretariat’s team members and workplan
• Managing relations with the SUN Movement Secretariat and other SUN networks
• Leading CSN engagement with SUN 3.0 strategy
• Leading engagement with Nutrition for Growth summit and its preparations

Barbara focuses on:

Nazgol focuses on:

Andy focuses on:

• Leading of the CSN fundraising and sustainability capacity, systems and tools.
• Developing the CSN fundraising and sustainability strategic approach.
• Coordinating the Pooled Fund to CSAs
• Leading on design and supervision of CSN competitive grant initiatives
• Supporting the Asia regional group and a range of CSAs globally

Sean focuses on:

• Managing the Youth Leaders 4 Nutrition Programme and supporting our youth leaders in their local, national, and global advocacy efforts
• Working with SUN movement stakeholders and CSN members to mainstream youth participation and leadership across all levels of the movement
• Supporting CSAs to adapt global advocacy plans and develop national-level advocacy strategies, and developing tailored resources to suit specific contexts

Scott focuses on:

• Leading on the network’s member engagement
• Supporting alliances with their communication strategies
• Delivering the SUN CSN’s communication strategy
• Producing communications material to leverage advocacy
• Leading on the CSN’s storytelling component

Carolina focuses on:

• Leading on the Network’s strategy implementation at the regional level
• Ensuring that CSAs have access to the information, opportunities and technical assistance they need to deliver their plans and to contribute to multi-sectoral efforts to address malnutrition
• Fostering a culture of cross-country and cross-regional learning exchanges
• Leveraging advocacy opportunities for nutrition at the regional level and supports countries in their advocacy activities
• Ensuring synergies with the SUN Movement Global Secretariat regional hub

Bessie focuses on:

• Leading on the Network’s strategy implementation at the regional level
• Ensuring that CSAs have access to the information, opportunities and technical assistance they need to deliver their plans and to contribute to multi-sectoral efforts to address malnutrition
• Fostering a culture of cross-country and cross-regional learning exchanges
• Leveraging advocacy opportunities for nutrition at the regional level and supports countries in their advocacy activities
• Ensuring synergies with the SUN Movement Global Secretariat regional hub

François focuses on:

• Leading on the Network’s strategy implementation at the regional level
• Ensuring that CSAs have access to the information, opportunities and technical assistance they need to deliver their plans and to contribute to multi-sectoral efforts to address malnutrition
• Fostering a culture of cross-country and cross-regional learning exchanges
• Leveraging advocacy opportunities for nutrition at the regional level and supports countries in their advocacy activities
• Ensuring synergies with the SUN Movement Global Secretariat regional hub

Emily focuses on:

• Leading on the Network’s strategy implementation at the regional level
• Ensuring that CSAs have access to the information, opportunities and technical assistance they need to deliver their plans and to contribute to multi-sectoral efforts to address malnutrition
• Fostering a culture of cross-country and cross-regional learning exchanges
• Leveraging advocacy opportunities for nutrition at the regional level and supports countries in their advocacy activities
• Ensuring synergies with the SUN Movement Global Secretariat regional hub

An International Development professional with over 22 years of experience in policy advocacy, public health nutrition, and international legal frameworks. His expertise centers on health and nutrition advocacy, human rights, and child rights governance. He has held senior positions in organizations like Save the Children International, SPARC, and Children First, successfully implementing large-scale public health and human rights projects supported by international donors and UN agencies. 

Hannah Stephenson is the Global Nutrition Lead for Save the Children, leading a team of Hunger and Nutrition policy and advocacy experts and coordinating nutrition work across the movement. Hannah previously held the role of Vice Chair between 2021 and 2023, having acted as interim Head for a period in 2022. Hannah brings 17 years of development expertise across a range of sectors, notably nutrition and agriculture. Having worked in a diverse range of contexts such as Guyana, Malawi, Myanmar, South Sudan, Kenya and India, she is passionate about the shifting power agenda and values the mandate of the SUN CSN for this reason.

A journalist by profession, Georgine has a vast experience in health communication. She is a communications specialist currently working as the Senior Programs Officer at the Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition Uganda (CISANU). She has led a successful online Breastfeeding campaigns raising awareness through strategically coordinating media campaigns. She manages and steers the secretariat of a network of organizations that form CISANU.

Yvonne is the Regional Advocacy Advisor for Action Against Hunger’s Regional Office for West and Central Africa. For over 15 years she has campaigned and lobbied in favour of food sovereignty, food security and good governance within the agriculture and rural development sector. One of her main missions is supporting and building capacity of staff and partner organisations including local civil society organisations to better influence decision makers and policies in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

Edward is the National Coordinator of the Sierra Leone Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition (SLAAHM) since 2012. SLAAHM is a founding member of SUN Civil Society Platform on Nutrition and Immunization (SUNI) and Edward is a National Steering Committee Member in 2015.

As head of SLAAHM, he provided the leadership in 2016 in collaboration with other partners and successfully advocated for the explicit inclusion of Right to Food in the current Draft National Constitution of Sierra Leone.

Dorothy is a Senior Associate for Nutrition and Child Health at RESULTS and spearheads the design and implementation of the nutrition policy advocacy strategy with the U.S. government, global agencies, and U.S. grassroots advocates. She is also the U.S. focal point for nutrition and child health in the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership, a partnership of 14 locally rooted organizations across five continents.

Christine is the Global Advocacy Director for Food and Nutrition Systems at CARE, where she leads the execution of CARE’s global policy and advocacy on food and water systems at global, regional, and national levels. She also serves on the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Movement’s Executive Committee, which acts on behalf of the SUN Movement Lead Group to oversee the implementation of the Movement’s strategy for SUN 3.0 (2021-2025).

Charlotte Martineau is a global health and development professional with over 15 years of experience in nutrition policy, advocacy, and programming. She has held roles with organisations including the Global Nutrition Report, Save the Children, and Action Contre la Faim, working across policy analysis, external engagement, and programme delivery. She is currently the Senior Manager, Global Advocacy at Nutrition International, leading efforts to shape global nutrition agendas and foster strategic partnerships. 

Carmen is the Senior Nutrition Technical Advisor within the Global Health and Nutrition Team at World Vision International.  Her expertise in nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches comes from her 14 years of technical assistance serving Asia and Africa within nutrition and multisector technical teams.   Carmen has worked in both stable and fragile contexts for programme design, monitoring and evaluation; developed nutrition tools and trainings (in-person and online) for community-based volunteers, practitioners and adolescents; facilitated capacity building and peer learning for integrated nutrition approaches, including Positive Deviance Hearth Plus; and supported development of World Vision’s nutrition advocacy campaign, ENOUGH.